Chicago Tribune | Jul 24, 2020 at 3:03 PM After announcing more than 1,500 new known coronavirus cases and 19 confirmed deaths, state health officials said Friday four counties are at a “warning level” for COVID-19 because of outbreaks of the virus. A total of 1,532 new known COVID-19 cases were disclosed Friday by the…
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A tsunami warning has been issued late Tuesday night for much of the southern coast of Alaska and the Alaskan Peninsula after a preliminary 7.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded 75 miles off the town of Chignik at a depth of eight miles.Reports indicated that sirens could be heard along coastal cities in the state.The National Tsunami…
Health warning issued after squirrel tests positive for the bubonic plague in Colorado county just outside of DenverA squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague It's the first case of plague in Jefferson County 18 miles southwest of Denver Another case was previously found in Broomfield county northwest of the city Plague is an infectious…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…